While backpacking this weekend in subalpine habitat we came up 2 Pine Grosbeaks foraging on the ground in front of us eating unripe whortleberry fruits. I thought this might be unusual so I looked up the BNA account and found the following about their foraging behavior, "..spends much time foraging near trunks of large trees; also spends much time on ground in openings of forest during late summer when eating unripe seeds and developing ovaries of forbs (CSA)."
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